Okay, so I'm breaking my short journal silence here (sorry, haven't been on much simply because there's so many projects to do at home involving clearing out all the old junk in my parents' basement) to rant (briefly) about this book I just read in my free time:
The synopsis:
Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.
There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with-day in, day out, day after day.
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I really want everyone to read this book. Not because I love it. Nor because I hate it. But because I have so many feelings about this book, and so many questions and philosophical prompts flying around in my head.
A reviewer on Goodreads probably said this the best If there was ever a book which would make for a great book club discussion, this would probably be it. The range of opinion would quite possibly be vast. People who tend to want specifics for every detail would pick everything apart, while the dreamers would want to imagine how to change the situation.
...I agree wholeheartedly. One cannot read this novel without having some sort of opinion about it.
And seriously. The ending? I'm surprised not more people are angrily commenting about it. It reminds me eerily of my reaction to Kate Chopin's The Awakening. A kind of "...that's it?" feeling. Shocked, because you were brought to a nondescript location on the map, and suddenly don't know what to do with yourself. Because you know you were moving forward up till that very last page. And now, suddenly...you're not.
It's so frustrating. But the book was so good, and so terrible, all at the same time.
Blows my mind, really.